All aboard the freedom train?
How Americans and Europeans might come together over spreading democracy in the Arab world
THE American administration, with its taste for inspiring sound-bites, calls it the “freedom agenda”. The European Union, with its preference for bureaucratic obscurity, calls it the “Barcelona process”. But both are, in their different styles, talking about the idea that they should find ways to promote democratic change in the Middle East. After the London bombings, could this become a common theme that helps to reunite hitherto squabbling transatlantic partners?
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “All aboard the freedom train?”
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